If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

The power of prayer is beyond the understanding of men.

You know, there's a reason we can remember, " [Catarina] said more softly."That's much easier when your life has an expiration date.""It may be more important for us.

Great. Now the queen thought I was a misfit, too.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

This stupid sensitivity! But then women like sensitivity.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.